- [Kiara and Kovu are stargazing]
- Kovu: I've never done this before.
- Kiara: Really? My father and I used to do this all the time. He says all the Great Kings of the Past are up there.
- [chuckles]
- Kovu: Do you think Scar's up there?
- [shocked, Kiara doesn't answer; realising what he just said, Kovu gets up and sits a short distance away; Kiara watches him sadly]
- Kovu: He wasn't my father, but he was still... part of me.
- Kiara: [approaches Kovu] My father has said there was a... a darkness... in Scar that he couldn't escape.
- Kovu: [ashamed] Maybe there's a darkness in me too.
- [Kiara nuzzles him]
- [the spirit of Mufasa shows his plan to bring peace to the Pridelander/Outlander feud]
- Rafiki: What? Kovu, Kiara together? This is the plan? Are you crazy? This will never work! Oh Mufasa, you've been up there too long, your head is in the clouds!
- [Rehearsing speaking to Simba]
- Timon: The good news is, we found your daughter. The bad news is, we dropped a warthog on her.
- [Kovu pounces, only to realize Timon is there]
- Timon: AHHH! Don't eat me, please! I... I never really met your tyrant, I mean, uh, Scar! Scar, oh heck of a guy. A little moody, but...
- Kiara: Timon, what are you doing here?
- Timon: Kiara! Thank goodness! Oh. Hey, for once, we're not following you. This just happens to be the best smorgasbord in the Pride Lands! Bugs everywhere! But, you don't call for a reservation and... yeesh!
- Young Kovu: [though she and Kovu fight and he prepares to leave, Kiara continually faces him] What are you *doing*?
- Young Kiara: My father says never to turn your back on an Outsider!
- Young Kovu: And do you always do what your father says?
- Young Kiara: NO!
- Young Kovu: Bet ya do! Bet your Daddy's little girl!
- [Timon and Pumbaa are fighting]
- Simba: What are you doing?
- Pumbaa: Ahh!
- Timon: Good question. Uh, let me ask you one.
- Pumbaa: Hippothetically.
- Timon: Very hypothetically. There's this guy...
- Pumbaa: But he's not a lion...
- Timon: No. No, he's not a lion. Yeesh, definitely not a lion... and uh... uh, his daughter, um, say... vanished?
- Kiara: [about letting Kovu return to the Pride Lands] Father, please reconsider.
- Simba: You will not go anywhere without an escort from now on.
- Kiara: No! That's not...
- Simba: He used you to get to me!
- Kiara: No! He loves me, for *me*!
- Simba: Because you are *my* daughter! You will not leave Pride Rock. You will stay where I can keep an eye on you, away from him!
- Kiara: You don't know him!
- Simba: I know he's following in Scar's pawprints!
- [hangs his head]
- Simba: And I must follow in my father's.
- Kiara: You will *never* be Mufasa!
- [Simba is horrified; Kiara runs into the den, crying]
- Young Kiara: Will somebody please just listen to me?
- Timon: I'm sorry, I wasn't listening. Did you say something, Princess?
- Young Kiara: I'm not *just* a princess, you know! That's only *half* of who I am!
- Pumbaa: Uh, well, who's the *other* half?
- [Kovu just rescued Kiara from the wildfire]
- Kiara: Where am I?
- Kovu: You're safe - in the Pride Lands.
- Kiara: The Pride Lands? No! Why'd you bring me here? Who do you think you are?
- Kovu: [shocked] I think I'm the one that just saved your life!
- Kiara: Look, I had everything under control.
- Kovu: Not from where I'm standing.
- Kiara: Then move downwind.
- Kovu: [points out where the grass has grown back from the fire, between them] Hey, look... we are one.
- Kiara: What?
- Kovu: Let's get outta here. We'll run away together! And start a pride... all our own.
- Kiara: Kovu... we have to go back.
- Kovu: You're kidding. But we're finally together!
- Kiara: Our place is with our pride. If we run away, they'll be divided forever.
- Timon: [he and Pumbaa narrowly escape being trampled by a herd of antelope] This must be where the deer and the antelope play!
- Simba: Scar couldn't let go of his hate, and in the end, it destroyed him.
- Kovu: I've... never heard the story of Scar that way.
- [whispers sadly]
- Kovu: He truly was a killer.
- Simba: [surveys the burnt trees around them] Fire is a killer. Sometimes what's left behind can grow better than the generation before.
- [swipes paw over dust to reveal a small plant]
- Simba: If given the chance.
- Zira: Well done, Kovu. Just like we've always planned.
- Simba: You!
- Adult Kovu: No! I didn't have anything to do with this!
- Zira: Attack!
- Young Kiara: I'm not *just* a princess, you know. That's only *half* of who I am!
- Pumbaa: Oh, who's the other half?
- Young Kiara: Umm... uhh...
- Simba: [to Kiara, who is leaving Pride Rock] And stay on the path I've marched for you!
- Nala: [chuckles] Simba, who does she remind you of?
- Simba: What? Who?
- Nala: She's just like you when you were young.
- Simba: Exactly! Do you remember the dangers we put ourselves in?
- Nala: [pushes Simba down on his back] You mean the dangers *you* put us in.
- [laughs as they kiss]
- Nala: She'll be fine.
- Zira: Vitani, now!
- Adult Vitani: No, Mother.
- [looks at Simba's pride, then at Zira]
- Adult Vitani: Kiara's right.
- [walks over to Kovu's side]
- Adult Vitani: Enough.
- Zira: If you will not fight, then you will die as well.
- [all of the remaining Outsiders head towards Simba and his pride]
- Zira: Where are you going? Get back here!
- Simba: Let it go, Zira. It's time to put the past behind us.
- Zira: [now alone] I'll *never* let it go!
- [camera points to more logs blocking the river and back to Zira showing her eyes]
- Zira: This is for you, Scar.
- Simba: Kiara?
- Zira: Kovu! Move.
- Simba: Stand aside.
- Kiara: Daddy, this has to stop.
- Zira: You're even weaker than I thought. Get out of the way!
- Kovu: You'll never hurt Kiara *or* Simba! Not while I'm here.
- [Zira snarls]
- Simba: Stay out of this.
- Kiara: A wise king once told me, "We are one." I didn't understand him then. Now I do.
- Simba: But... they...
- Kiara: Them? Us? Look at them! They *are* us. What differences do you see?
- Kiara: Hey. Thanks for saving me today.
- Kovu: What kind of hunter are you anyway, princess? You almost got yourself killed out there.
- Kiara: What?
- Kovu: You wouldn't last three days on your own.
- Kiara: Oh, and I suppose *you* could teach me?
- Kovu: Yeah.
- Simba: Kiara!
- Kiara: Coming!
- [stalls Kovu]
- Kiara: All right, impress me. We start at dawn.
- [goes inside]
- Kovu: I look forward to it.
- Young Vitani: Nuka, where's Kovu? Did you leave him out there on his own again?
- Nuka: Hey, it's every lion for himself out here. That little termite's gotta learn to be on his own.
- [He itches for termites with his hind leg]
- Young Vitani: Mother's gonna be mad if she told you to watch him!
- Nuka: Oh, who cares. I should've been the chosen one.
- [He continues to itch on his head, shoulder and back]
- Nuka: I'm the oldest, I'm the strongest, I'm the smartest - Oh! These termites!
- [bites for termites then rolls side to side]
- Nuka: I could be a leader if she just give me a chance!
- [itches the rump while dragging himself around Vitani]
- Young Vitani: Pff. Yeah, right. Why don't you tell it to her.
- Nuka: Yeah? Don't think I won't.
- Young Vitani: Oh, yeah?
- [chuckles]
- Young Vitani: Here's your chance.
- Simba: Why have you come back?
- Kovu: Simba, I had nothing to do with...
- Simba: You don't belong here.
- Kovu: Please. I ask your forgiveness.
- Kiara: Daddy, please. Listen to him.
- Simba: [to Kiara] Silence!
- [back to Kovu]
- Simba: When you first came here you asked for judgement. And I pass it now!
- [animals were telling Simba to exile Kovu]
- Simba: Exile!
- Kiara: No!
- Timon: [Timon and Pumbaa scream as the antelope were running past them] This must be where the deer and the antelope play.
- [they both scream again but towards Kiara]
- Kiara: Timon, what are you doing here?
- Timon: Shopping! We thought a nice pelt for the den, some throw pillows, a little potpourri...
- Kiara: My father sent you. After he promised to let me do this on my own. He lied!
- Timon: No. He just doesn't want you to get hurt.
- Kiara: I should have known he'd never give me a real chance. I'll do this on my own! Away from the Pride Lands.
- [she runs further away from Timon and Pumbaa]
- Timon: Hey! Wait! Come back!
- Pumbaa: Come back here! Kiara!
- [they chase after Kiara]
- Timon: Kiara, come back! She's gone again. Somebody's gotta get a beeper for this kid.
- Simba: Father, I am lost. Kovu is one of them. Scar's heir. How can I accept him?
- Nala: Simba?
- Simba: I was seeking counsel from the great kings.
- Nala: Did they help?
- Simba: Silent as stars. My father would never...
- Nala: My Simba. You want so much to walk the path expected of you. Perhaps Kovu does not.
- Simba: What? How do you know...
- Nala: I can see them down there just as easily as you can. Get to know him and see.
- Simba: Kiara, what did you think you were doing? You could've been killed today.
- Young Kiara: But, Daddy, I... I didn't mean to disob...
- Simba: I'm telling you this because I love you. I don't wanna to lose you.
- Young Kiara: I know.
- Simba: If something happened to you, I don't know what I'd do.
- [rubs his head onto Kiara]
- Simba: One day, I won't be here, and I need you to carry on in my place. We're part of the great Circle of...
- Young Kiara: Circle of life. I know.
- Simba: Exactly. And you need to be careful. As future queen...
- Young Kiara: What if I don't wanna be queen? It's no fun.
- Simba: That's like saying you don't wanna be a lion. It's in our blood, as I am. We are part of each other.
- Kiara: [Alternate Scene]
- [Zira is clinging onto the rock for her life when Kiara reaches out her paw to help]
- Kiara: Zira, give me your paw!
- Zira: [after looking down at the flood below, Zira grins disturbingly at Kiara and whispers vehemently] . No! Never!
- [Lets go of the rock and falls into the swollen valley below]
- Zira: .